6 Amendments of George LYON related to 2010/2110(INI)
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CondemnEncourages the Commission's approach, which far too often makes concessions on agriculture in order to carry on seeking bilateral and multilateral trade agreements to obtain enhanced market access in third countries for industrial products and services; insists, however, that the impact of the concessions made on agriculture should be properly assessed and communicated to the Council and the Parliament prior to deals being reached in order to ensure progress on trade while providing EU agriculture with a sustainable future;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission proactively to promote the EU's offensive agricultural interests, given the vast export potential of the EU's high quality agri-food products; underlines, inter alia, the need to step up promotion programmes, including through an increase in the percentage of EU cofinancing; notes that these measures are WTO-compatible, falling as they do into the ‘green box’;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that the EU has already significantly reduced its trade-distorting domestic support and asks for firm commitments to do the same from other trading partners; underlines the importance of free and fair trade, which entails common European standards, for instance in the area of animal welfare;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that the general reduction in customs tariffs should be assessed in the light of the EU offer concerning the domestic support and export competition pillars, and should depend on the possibility of keeping the Special Safeguard clause during a transitional period for a limited number of tariff lines, on a specific exemption from tariff simplification disciplines and on adequate flexibility in the formula for tariff cuts and in the designation of sensitive products; is of the opinion that the proposed mechanism forthrough the designatingon of sensitive products is fatally undermined by the obligation to achieve a significant tariff quota expansion;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Considers it unacceptable that the Commission resumed negotiations with Mercosur without making publicly available a detailed impact assessment and without engaging in a proper political debate with the Council and the Parliament and calls on the Commission to keep the Council and the Parliament informed in due time as the negotiations continue;